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25 Céntimos Bedmar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bedmar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note struck in black ink on cream card stock, entirely text-based with no pictorial vignette. The issuer name and denomination statement are arranged in three lines across the centre of the face. A geometric border with interlaced corner ornaments and repeating chain-link lateral elements frames the entire composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BEDMAR Vale 25 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Bedmar It is worth 25 Centimos) |
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Bedmar is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued emergency fractional notes during the Civil War when Republican-zone copper and silver coins vanished almost entirely from circulation by 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal — the local council operating under wartime Republican authority — produced these low-denomination pieces to keep retail trade functioning at all.
The thick card construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper; the material was whatever the local printer could source. Gari Mon catalogues this as 247-A, implying at least one variant exists within the Bedmar issue — likely a color or paper distinction, though surviving examples are rare enough that comparative study is difficult.